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power_n	body_n	natural_a	sow_v	2,624	5	11.4108	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47121	The anti-Christs and Sadduces detected among a sort of Quakers, or, Caleb Pusie of Pensilvania and John Pennington, with his brethren of the second days meeting at London called Quakers, proved antichrists and Sadduces out of a said book lately published by them called A modest account of the principal differences in point of doctrine betwixt George Keith and those of the people called Quakers in Pensilvania &c. : being an answer to the said book ... : with some few remarks on John Pennington's late book entitled The people called Quakers cleared &c. and Geo. Whitehead his postscript ...: and a postscript ... / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing K138; ESTC R179313	54,978	49

the putting on the New Man is nothing else but the putting off the Old Man and so at this rate the Scripture is vain and false which doth distinguish them as much as betwixt the putting off a filthy Garment and the putting on a new clean Garment But if on better consideration he be ashamed of his rash Assertion and come to acknowledg that the Soul by Regeneration not only is purified from Sin but wonderfully changed and transformed from Natural or Animal to Spiritual from Earthly to Heavenly and yet the same in Substance let him acknowledg that the mighty Power of God through Christ that thus hath changed the Soul retaining the same substance can and will change the low Body of a Saint and fashion it like the Glorious Body of Christ as the Scripture plainly Testifieth Phil. 3. P. 34. But nothing will satisfy him unless I can demonstrate how a Natural and Corruptible Substance can be turned into a Spiritual one Well if I can demonstrate that this actually was done will that satisfy him I fear his unbelief will still harden his Heart against this excellent Doctrine of holy Scripture But however I will try a little more to Convince him The Food which our Saviour received into his Body was it not before he received it corruptible or to use his Phrase a Corruptible Natural Substance Yea surely it was and what part of that Food became part of his Body and Flesh it was turned or changed into incorruptible for as his Flesh saw no Corruption so without all doubt it is at present an incorruptible Substance which G. W. after his former wrangling hath acknowledged Malice of the Indepen Agent p. 17. P. 34. His wrangling and quibling from his own gross misunderstanding of some places of Scripture helps him nothing as that David slept with his Faethers and saw Corruption Acts 13. 36. And that of Job I have said of Corruption thou art my Father If he will take these Scriptures strictly and literally he must as much contend against the Immortality of the Soul as the Resurrection of the Body the Mortal Body of Man is truly said to be Corruptible because it consists of two heterogeneous parts the one Noble the other ignoble to wit the Husk Dross or Cortex and after the Separation of the Noble from the Ignoble it is not corrupt but pure yet at the Resurrection it is raised up to an higher Dignity and made immortal and incorruptible as it neither shall nor can return to be united with that drossy part again and so is truly incorruptible as well as immortal But he will not leave off until as the Man-Eater or Anthropophagus eateth Mans Flesh he Eat or swallow up with his devouring Throat thereby thinking to destroy it the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body And he joyneth with Atheists and Sadducees here in arguing against the Resurrection of the Body being the same in Substance from the Man-Eaters And to my Answer to their Objection from the Man-Eaters he Replyeth first Repeating some of my words but omitting the Explanatory part I shall therefore cite them as they are in my Book p. 118. Truth Adv. I say Allowing there is a great change or renewing of the gross material and visible Parts of Mans Body yet the Radical Body or Radix and Principal Substance of the Body remaineth the same and is of a durable and lasting Nature and tho it may be encreased in Man while he liveth yet it is not diminished nor the parts of it separated asunder and tho Man-Eaters may Eat the gross part of Man's Body yet that more subtil and invisible part they cannot nor can that which belongeth to one be given to another hence by way of Allegory and Metaphor it is called Bone in Scripture Isa 66. 14. From this most nonsensically he infers That I affirm the Man-eaters Eat the Accidents of Man's Body but not the Substance and will needs have it the same or equally absurd with the Doctrine of Transubstantiation But this sort of quibling comes partly from his gross ignorance and partly from the perversion and prejudice of his Spirit for I neither said nor thought that the Man-Eaters eat only the Accidents but I distinguished betwixt the Radix and principal Substance of Man's Body and that which was but the drossy part which is also a substance and if he deny it to be a substance to wit the Dross or Drossy part of any Body which is frequently separated from the Noble Volatile part by Chimical Operations and otherwise he is guilty of the Popish false Notion of Transubstantiation and not I for the Dross is frequently separated from that more Noble Substance that it was mingled with and if he says that Dross is not a Substance but an Accident then here is the Popish Doctrine affirmed by him with a witness But let this Miller-Philosopher who as the Shooemaker goeth beyond his Last so goeth beyond his Sphere of Knowledge in all his undertaking against these great Truths of the Christian Faith tell me doth he think that a Man-eater can properly speaking eat Iron Silver Gold Lead if he swallow it down will it not go forth at the draught with the Excrement and yet is no part of the Excrement This is a thing usually known that some to save their Gold from Robbers have swallowed it down but did they eat it If he say nay then I say to him no more can a man-eater eat that radical and principal substance of a Saints body to make it a part of his body for as every body has a distinct seed so the Radix of every body is a distinct Radix P. 36. But behold the man's great hypocrisie after all his so much contending against the Resurrection of the Body and charging the Scripture it self with inconsistency and contradiction yet he has the impudence to say we firmly believe there shall be a Resurrection both of the Just and Unjust And again he saith We do not think it a necessary business to be curiously prying into the manner of it Neither saith he do we find the Primitive Christians come to any Result about what their Bodies should be But this is a plain Contradiction to the holy Scripture That the Primitive Christians believed and all true Christians do now believe which saith This corrrptible shall put on incorruption and this mortal shall put on immortality Now what is this mortal It is not the Soul which he thinks I suppose is not mortal therefore it must be the Body And concerning the manner of it the Scripture is very plain and express It is sown natural it is raised spiritual it is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown in weakness it is raised in power it is sown in dishonour it is raised in honour P. 36. But he goeth on still querying 1. If it was the common belief of the Primitive Christians that the very same matter and substance of this corruptible